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Author : Rolfe King,Victor Lee Austin,Luke Bretherton
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2013-02-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567032195
The book aims to answer key questions that students and the general reader may have about Christian ethics.
Author : Victor Lee Austin
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567601384
Christian ethics is a most perplexing subject. This Guide takes the reader through the most fundamental issues surrounding the question of Ethics from a Christian perspective: Is ethics a meaningful topic of discourse and can there be such a thing as an ethical argument or ethical persuasion? What is the meaning of the adjective in "Christian Ethics"?Could right behavior be different for Christians than it is for others? Can we turn to the Bible for help? Does the Bible tell us what to do, or give us insight into the good we should aim to achieve, or give us a narrative by which to live? Is it best to think of ethics as a matter of duty, or good, or excellence? If we take the virtue line and say that ethics is about human excellence, doing well as a human being or succeeding at being a good human being then what will we say about humans who cannot achieve excellence? The virtue approach leads us to place friendship as the goal of ethics.
Author : Derek R. Nelson
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2011-07-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567542755
An upper-level introduction to the doctrine and understanding of sin in modern theology. >
Author : Agneta Sutton
Publisher : T&T Clark
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2008-08
Category : Medical
ISBN : STANFORD:36105131780244
A new Guide for the Perplexed title providing an examination of bioethics that will couple Christian and philosophical perspectives.
Author : Marc Cortez
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2010-01-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567428363
What does it mean to be human and to be made in the image of God? What does it mean to be a 'person'? What constitutes a human person? What does it mean to affirm that humans are free beings? And, what is gender? Marc Cortez guides the reader through the most challenging issues that face anyone attempting to deal with the subject of theological anthropology. Consequently, it addresses complexities surrounding such questions as: Each chapter explains first both why the question under consideration is important for theological anthropology and why it is also a contentious issue within the field. After this, each chapter surveys and concisely explains the main options that have been generated for resolving that particular question. Finally the author presents to the reader one way of working through the complexity. These closing sections are presented as case studies in how to work through the problems and arrive at a conclusion than as definitive answers. Nonetheless, they offer a convincing way of answering the questions raised by each chapter.
Author : Dr. Ted Peters,Martinez Hewlett
Publisher : Abingdon Press
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2010-10-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781426729096
Named a 2007 Book of Distinction by the Sir John Templeton Foundation. The special edition of this award winning book celebrates the 200th birthday of Charles Darwin. Since, even before, the publication of Darwin's seminal work on evolution, science and religion have often been at odds. Even today culture wars continue to rage. How can I be faithful to God and fully enjoy the progress of science? Who is Charles Darwin and what did he actually say? Can you believe in God and evolution? Does teaching evolution corrupt our social values? How can you connect science and faith? Can science be a Christian vocation? So how can we interpret the creation story in the Bible? Authors Ted Peters and Martinez Hewlett give a balanced discussion of the impact of evolution to help church leaders understand the values at stake. They make the convincing case that Christians can connect their faith in God with a scientific understanding of evolution with integrity
Author : Ernst Friedrich Schumacher
Publisher : Random House
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Conduct of life
ISBN : 9780099480211
This book, by the author of 'Small is Beautiful' is about the different ways in which people may see and the blindness of only seeing in one particular way. The arguments Schumacher presents are invigorating, provoking and often dramatic.
Author : Loren Broadus
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Applied ethics.
ISBN : 082720809X
In a book that is both practical and deeply spiritual, Broadus shows how we can tap into 'the ethic of Presence, ' in which our decisions are ethical to the extent that they reflect the presence of God within us.
Author : D. Stephen Long
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2010-07-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199568864
This book provides both a short history of Christian ethics and looks at itsbasic sources as they arise from Judaism, Greco-Roman ethics, andChristianity
Author : Clare Carlisle
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 082648610X
Kierkegaard is an important literary and religious figure, as well a major philosopher whom students may have a difficult time comprehending- this guide provides a clear and concise understanding of his work
Author : Chad V. Meister
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2012-04-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781441175328
One of the most perplexing problems facing believers in God is the problem of evil. The words of Epicurus put the point concisely: "Either God wants to abolish evil, and cannot; or he can, but does not want to. If he wants to, but cannot, he is impotent. If he can, but does not want to, he is wicked. If God can abolish evil, and God really wants to do it, why is there evil in the world?" This is a difficult problem to unpick and it remains an issue that continues to concern people and inspire debate. The problem has taken a variety of forms over the centuries; in fact, there are numerous "problems" of evil-problems for theists but, perhaps surprisingly, problems for non-theists as well. Evil: A Guide for the Perplexed explores, in a rigorous but engaging way, central challenges to religious belief raised by evil and suffering in the world as well as significant responses to them from both theistic and non-theistic perspectives.
Author : R. Raj Singh
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2010-05-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781441128256
Arthur Schopenhauer is a widely read, admired and intriguing philosopher whose ideas have had a profound impact on some of the greatest minds of the last two centuries. He is known for his powerful but simple prose-style and a philosophy that tackles everyday life. Yet even the most sympathetic and intelligent reader of his works is likely to be perplexed by seeming inconsistencies and unconventional tone of a number of his major claims. Schopenhauer: A Guide for the Perplexed is a clear and thorough account of Schopenhauer's philosophy, his major works and ideas, providing an ideal guide to the important and complex thought of this key philosopher. The book explores arguments that he offers for his pessimistic worldview that have long been misunderstood. Geared towards the specific requirements of students who need to reach a sound understanding of Schopenhauer contributions to philosophy, this book also presents an in-depth analysis of his western as well as his hitherto neglected eastern sources and influences.
Author : Maimonides
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2012-06-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780486119342
Philosopher, physician, and master of rabbinical literature, Moses ben Maimon (1135-1204) strove to reconcile biblical revelation with medieval Aristotelianism. His writings, especially the celebrated Guide for the Perplexed, exercised considerable influence on both Jewish and Christian scholasticism and brought him lasting renown as one of the greatest medieval thinkers. This volume contains his most significant ethical works, newly translated from the original sources by Professors Raymond L. Weiss and Charles E. Butterworth, well-known Maimonides scholars. Previous translations have often been inadequate — either because they were not based on the best possible texts or from a lack of precision. That deficiency has been remedied in this text; the translations are based on the latest scholarship and have been made with a view toward maximum accuracy and readability. Moreover, the long "Letter to Joseph" has been translated into English for the first time. This edition includes the following selections: I. Laws Concerning Character Traits (complete) II. Eight Chapters (complete) III. On the Management of Health IV. Letter to Joseph V. Guide of the Perplexed VII. The Days of the Messiah Taken as a whole, this collection presents a comprehensive and revealing overview of Maimonides' thought regarding the relationship of revelation and reason in the sphere of ethics. Here are his teachings concerning "natural law," secular versus religious authority, the goals of moral conduct, diseases of the soul, the application of logic to ethical matters, and the messianic era. Throughout, the great sage is concerned to reconcile the apparent divergence between biblical teachings and Greek philosophy.
Author : Peter S. Eardley,Carl N. Still
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780826498809
A student's guide to the life and thought of Thomas Aquinas, the most widely read and studied medieval thinker.
Author : Alfred L. Ivry
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2016-09-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780226395265
A classic of medieval Jewish philosophy, Maimonides’s Guide of the Perplexed is as influential as it is difficult and demanding. Not only does the work contain contrary—even contradictory—statements, but Maimonides deliberately wrote in a guarded and dissembling manner in order to convey different meanings to different readers, with the knowledge that many would resist his bold reformulations of God and his relation to mankind. As a result, for all the acclaim the Guide has received, comprehension of it has been unattainable to all but a few in every generation. Drawing on a lifetime of study, Alfred L. Ivry has written the definitive guide to the Guide—one that makes it comprehensible and exciting to even those relatively unacquainted with Maimonides’ thought, while also offering an original and provocative interpretation that will command the interest of scholars. Ivry offers a chapter-by-chapter exposition of the widely accepted Shlomo Pines translation of the text along with a clear paraphrase that clarifies the key terms and concepts. Corresponding analyses take readers more deeply into the text, exploring the philosophical issues it raises, many dealing with metaphysics in both its ontological and epistemic aspects.
